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[Copy of  the  Copyright  to  the  first  American  edition  of  this  work, published at  Georgetown,  D.  C,  in  1823,  by  Joseph  Milligan, and printed  by  J.  C.  Dunn.]

District of  Columbia,  to  wit:

BE it  remembered,  that  on  the  twentieth  day  of  March, in the  forty-seventh  year  of  the  Independence  of the  United  States  of  America,  Joseph  Milligan,  of  the said District,  has  deposited  in  this  office,  the  title  of  a  Book, the right  whereof  he  claims  as  Proprietor,  in  the  words  following, to  wit :

"Meditations for  every  day  in  the  year,  collected  from  different spiritual  writers.  First  written  in  Latin  by  N.  B.,  translated into  English  by  E.  M.,  in  the  year  1669,  and  now  revised  by Rev.  R.  Baxter.  Every  day  will  I  bless  thee  :  and  I  will  praise thy  name  forever;  yea.  forever  and  ever. — [Ps.  cxlv.  2.]"

In conformity  to  the  Act  of  the  Congress  of  the  United States, entitled  "An  Act  for  the  encouragement  of  learning, by  securing  the  copies  of  Maps,  Charts  and  Books,  to  the Authors  and  Proprietors  of  such  copies,  during  the  times therein  mentioned.

EDMUND I. LEE,

Clerk of the District of Columbia.'